Discuss the history and architectural decisions for the open-source pandas project. Present plans for the future direction of project.
pandas originated in 2008, authored by Wes McKinney, and open-sourced by the fund AQR. Some architectural decisions made in the beginning have created technical debt today.
Here is a blog post by wes which will show some of the current issues.
I will present a plan of how we plan to address these issues in the guise of pandas2.